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to death for their participation in the assault. In 1990 General Bravo qualified the execution of the three men as "terrible" as there had not been any proof of their participation in the assault. In the days around
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and estimates the duration of the strike in three months. The same witness states that
Carabineros were asked by the sawmill boss to gun any striker found walking around in nighttime. The repression of this movement was according to historians Pino and Jelin so strong that only in the 1960s and
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succeeded in isolating the group by August 1981 and in
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There were no deaths in the assault and the police station did not suffer mayor damage. The police attempted to identify the weapons used but the investigation could not find any of the bullets fired against the station. In
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of the assailants, and rain prevented the
Molotov cocktails to put the structure on fire. Inside the police station were also the wives and children of the carabineros. Corporal Juan Campos in the police station asked for help to the police station in
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government. The idea of the MRC was to take control of the building, have the police to surrender, making them join the revolt and seize any weapons to be found there. People from MCR gathered all weapons they could find, four rifles and some
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was created in 1999. During large periods of the 20th century, Neltume was a site of social mobilizations and unrest, events which culminated in 1981 with the crackdown of the "Toqui
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industry was experiencing in Chile at that time. The humid and forested areas of
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shouted at them to surrender, to not fear for the lives. To fight together with us to defend to government of
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workers of Neltume. It was also considered convenient that the place was close to the cities of
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